Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/12/2015
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
IISER, Pune
Categories
An evening of Guiliani, Bach, Narvaez, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Rozsa.
Madhavan Somanathan was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1991 and started playing the guitar at the age of 7. In 2001, he moved, along with his parents and guitar to Delhi, India. He continued to take classical guitar lessons with Jaspal Singh at the Delhi School of Music for several years and at the age of 14, he won first prize at the first National Classical Guitar Competition organised by the Guitar Guild of Goa in Panaji. In 2014, Madhavan won 3rd prize at the prestigious Calcutta International Guitar Festival becoming the first Indian guitarist to place at the competition since it’s inception in 2010. He has performed for audiences in India, Germany, the U.S. and France. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Columbia University and currently studies guitar performance with world-renowned pedagogue and concertist Judicael Perroy, in Paris.
CONCERT PROGRAMME
Fernando Sor
Bagatelle No.1, Op. 43 “Mes Ennuis”
Luys de Narvaez
Differencias Sobre Conde Claros
J.S. Bach
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro, BWV 998
M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Capricho No. 1, “Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Pintor”
Mauro Guiliani
Grand Overture, Op. 61
Miklos Rozsa
Sonata, Op. 42